As seven alien races struggle to co-exist in an uneasy alliance, the Inter-Stellar Union sends Union Guard agents on missions to preserve the crucial balance. These specialized operatives must do what regional security cannot, dealing with smugglers, pirates, terrorists, and even greater challenges in order to bring stability to a universe that needs it desperately. Without the Union Guard, the races will not be prepared to face a looming alien threat they can only hope to defeat together.

Friday, April 8, 2016

JohnCon Mission Report (part 5)

In a different
mission, the Heist Stratagem, players gave up their weapons and armor
to go undercover as civilians into a mafia-owned bank. Another
undercover agent embedded in a street gang was staging a bank heist
with the gang, and the players' team was to use the distraction to
steal valuable intel about the mafia from bank computers. However, a
lot went sideways. One of the characters was seen sneaking around in
a wide open area by a gang member and was shot in the leg (one of his
team-mates decided to call him “Chuckles” after this). The team
initially failed to successfully hack the bank servers, which alerted
both the police and the mafia. Thankfully, though, they were
ultimately able to gain the computer data with help from a hacker
among the civilian hostages. The team then decided to try to take on
two of the gang at once, using crafted weapons and armor from items
found throughout the bank...this did not go extremely well at first,
considering the two gang members were armed with a shotgun and
assault rifle. If not for the assistance of the other undercover
agent, the team might have met their end. There were some great
moments, though, with home-brewed tear-gas made from bathroom
cleaning chemicals followed by attacks from a hairspray
flame-thrower. The team ultimately managed to eliminate the gang and
foil the heist in the end, and everyone survived (though if not for
the duct-taped book-cover armor they'd made for themselves, there
would have been a death or two!)